I'll put up a work in progress. I got back my ASI071MC upgraded to the pro - wow I don't feel like one. But it now works nicely on a simple USB2 cable instead of those horrible stiff USB3 ones - no amp glow. Cooling worked well with no frosting on the sensor.
I've only been able to get 2 hours of 90sec subs (at unity gain on an 80mm refractor). Got it last week just before moonrise. Have since had lousy weather, so if I get more I will add to it.
Processed in pixinsight. Don't know if I got this right as when I calibrate the flats it comes up with an error that there's no correlation between the target and the darks (reading the PI forum it seems this is happening because the flats are under 1sec and don't need darks, just bias frames??). Its only done this with the bias/darks/flats from the upgraded camera (it doesn't do this on calibration files from the camera before I got it upgraded - and using same capture settings and PI preprocessing). Weird?
Also a question. I'm still a bit perplexed as to which denoising I should use. For this image I did the following -
- on the stacked debayaered image - I crop and DBE and then colour calibrate.
- reduce noise with ATrousWaveletTransform on the image with the foreground target masked.
- stretch
- TGCdenoise - mainly bringing up the black level
- then increase colour saturation with the background masked. And reduce the background a bit with the foreground masked
- and finished off with localhistogramequalisation
This is kind of following a mishmash of processes described on Harry's astroshed. Does this sound sensible?
http://astrob.in/326505/0/
